I always assume people doing this are unhinged/crazy and I definitely don’t want to deal with that.
Sometimes they look nice enough.
Usually what happens is myself and everyone else on the train look at each other, have a shared look of “Morons? Am I right?” and then when that person leaves, we all share a group laugh.
So I guess what I’d say is, if you do this, know that everyone is laughing at you. If you say you don’t care, that’s a lie, you do care, that’s why you’re doing what you’re doing. This is not positive attention, this is negative attention. Please take a moment and reflect to be a force for positivity and not negativity.
Some guy got stabbed on the subway in Toronto a few months back because he asked a guy playing music to turn it off. It really is a crazy world out there.
Genuinely not necessarily true. I used to do this when I was younger. It wasn’t because I wanted attention, I just like the feeling of being surrounded by music
headphones are both more polite and more immersive thwn carrying around a speaker to annoy others
when I was younger.
Looks like you’re still not forgiven :)
You’re a bad person.
The venn diagram of people who play music on speakers in public and people who are a thin thread away from stabbing you is a circle.
Also, I live in the US, so the medical fees for getting stabbed is not worth the risk.
Also, I live in the US,
The first paragraph made that clear.
Americans who want to confront but can’t afford medcare 🤝 Swedes who have full access to medcare but are afraid of social interaction
I was gonna say that. The guy with the speaker is also the one asking you for coke or heroin on the L.
I’m not trying to get stabbed in the neck. You should consider this risk too.
What country do you live in?!
I live a country where metal can be sharpened and I assume you do too
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I have read this braindead take a thousand times at least. There is no country on Earth without random violence.
I never claimed that. Saying that ignores the amount of times it happens in a given country. Per capita.
What country are you from then?
Probably Denmark considering the name and one comment they made referring to Denmark.
I feel sorry for them.
Neither Sweden or the UK have that many knife related deaths (I couldn’t find any good non death statistics).
Probably a city in America, crazies live out here.
This has happened in Germany, too.
I’m not going to try and educate other people anymore. Too many people now explode without warning at the slightest perceived criticism in public.Seriously, why do high population centers in the western world have so many mentally unstable people and/or tweakers?
Low population areas do to. But you don’t have public transit so as long as you don’t wander into their meth labs you never have to meet them.
Those type of people exist everywhere.
Because those places have actual free media which report these kinds of issues.
Crazies live everywhere bro
But the crazies tend to get better help in other countries. Free healthcare and all.
That’s if they want help at all.
Free my ass. Tax payer funded. If you’re going to support something, at least be honest about it.
Nothing in life is free. I guess we should just get rid of the word. Who doesn’t know that “free healthcare” is paid with taxes? I obviously mean no unexpected bills or denied healthcare. Nobody has to chose between food or medication. Obviously…
Do you also comment about the word literally and figuratively being synonyms?
Literally, it’s an important point that seems to be lost on many that believe if we just tax the top 10% (who pay 90% of total tax revenue) even more, we can fix all our problems. Every country with socialized healthcare requires every citizen to pay a significant tax to cover the cost. If people are not willing to pay for it, they shouldn’t be advocating for it. But first they have to be educated on the reality of the cost. So yeah, stop saying free because many have no clue.
Not just America. I saw this on the DB to Strasbourg, drunk middle aged woman spitting vile at each person who passed her.
You really wanna handle that?
The only time I’ve seen actual violence on public transit was in Germany, fwiw
Same for me
I’m not in the game of tempting fate
Why is it always the worst rap music imaginable? Like, I’m a hip hop fanatic, old school, new school, trap, g funk, boom bap, conscious, etc. But why is it the most asinine “i took a xanny now i’m fucking your girl” type shit?
You don’t enjoy “Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, fucked yo girl on a Tuesday, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci, I made poopies on yo boobies, Gucci Gucci Gucci Gucci.”
For real when did brands become choruses?
I often wonder if they get sponsored, like all these AP and Rolex on drill wrappers wrists they rap about idk, seems so specific sometimes
That’s not at all the same, since it’s part of the chorus and follows a rhyming scheme that isn’t just rhyming itself.
Is that really a lyric!?
No it’s a joke about a megos song.
I’ve tried this. Guy next to me was playing a video game on full blast that I can hear over my noise cancelling headphones. I asked him if he could turn the sound down.
He said “F you! This is my console. I do what I want! You’re the only one complaining so shut the f up”…
“Wanna hold a referendum on that?”
IMHO you would have been within your rights to yank that guy’s console out of his hands and smash it.
Of course the risk escalating wouldn’t be worth it, but you’d have the moral high ground at least.
Someone being obnoxious does not give you the right to damage their property.
This is an absurd and extremely juvenile take.
In many places, what you suggest would be charged as an assault, and destruction of property.
Yes? I’m not saying it’s a good idea to actually do it.
Start up your Bluetooth speaker. (Buy one if you haven’t got one. It doesn’t have to be good, just loud.)
Ramp it up to 11.
Start the most annoying obnoxious sound you have, (that you have already downloaded).
Stand next to the person playing the shitty music and aim the speaker at then.
When they complain about your annoying noise you reply, “You started it.”Is this the real reason polka was invented?
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Well double dumbass on you!
The 1 downvote you have is from a sequel trilogy fan.
Yeah I don’t need the tweaky dude stabbing me on the train because I didn’t like his music, but thanks
I’m American, I’m not trying to get shot
Nice try; Americans don’t have public transport.
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German here. A woman was starting to play loud music on her phone while I was sitting at a bakery having a cup of coffee, trying to relax from a bad morning. I opened Spotify, checked for this song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDBDtIOxUsI Every Maaaaaamaaaa I was singing loudly along. She lasted half of the song then fled the scene, even left her coffee on the table. My ears were bleeding, but it was worth it.
Fight them with the most terrible old people song you know in your country, be aware that it might hurt you too.
No all hero’s wear capes…it’d be cooler if you did though
Or you can choose a mixture of terrible and majestic and sing with all your might.
You better have the gun from the meme if you’re gonna make a habit of this.
1911? Yeah. We got those.
Yes. We shoot people for accelerating from a stoplight too fast here.
Try that in a big town
I’ve had the idea to get a handful of headphones at a dollar store and hand them out whenever someone is playing their music out loud. I’ve never done it, though.
Yeah I mean I’m not much of a fighter and I’ve gotten put in the hospital for something similar, so now I avoid confrontation like the plague.
